Introduction
Turntables is a protest song that was initially written to appear in the 2020 Amazon documentary All In: The Fight for Democracy, which focuses on the issue of voter suppression and the fight for democracy. The film’s subject is the 2018 elections for the Governor of Georgia. It drew attention to the tactics used to suppress voting rights to ensure the election of the Republican candidate Brian Kemp at the expense of Stacey Abrams, the black Democrat candidate. In the documentary, the tactics used to suppress the voting right of minorities were exposed. During the run up to the election, 1.4 million under-represented minorities disappeared from the electoral roll and 300,000 Georgians were incorrectly deemed ineligible to vote.
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My responsibility as an artist is to reflect the times. And I wish these were not the times we lived in. I wish that I didn’t have to write a song fighting against voter suppression and drawing attention to the injustices of marginalized people. I wish I didn’t have to do that. And I wish that the other artists didn’t have to do that, but we felt a responsibility to it.
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